Italy Technically Still Confident in Silvio Berlusconi

Bon vivant Silvio Berlusconi suffered through another one of his signature “ordeals” this morning: the rakish Italian prime minister “barely survived a confidence vote on Friday, saving his government from collapse but effectively preventing it from legislating,” The New York Times reports. Wonderful! He’s still in charge but no one expects him to actually do anything. How will he celebrate? We have one idea, but it’s perverse and we don’t even want to type it. Alright, we’ll type it in a very tiny font: Whatever “bunga bunga” means, that’s what he’ll do.

According to the Times, “Mr. Berlusconi was saved by loyalists who have said they want the government to limp along rather than fall and potentially be replaced by non-political technocrats with a mandate to carry out those structural changes.” What about a political technocrat? What about a very handsome political technocrat who’s already experienced turning around struggling organizations? Asking for a friend … Ritt Momney.